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Re:The Naked and the TED by Tloewald on Saturday August 04, 2012 @10:28AM (#4338534)
The author almost but not quite describes "the singularity" as a kind of secular pseudo-intellectual rapture. Nailed it.
Re:The Naked and the TED by _delirium on Saturday August 04, 2012 @11:19AM (#4338664)
That's an idea that does get thrown around fairly explicitly now and then: https://www.google.com/search?q=singularity+%22rapture+for+n...
Re:The Naked and the TED by ontoillogical on Saturday August 04, 2012 @02:00PM (#4339119)
"who doesn’t fancy uploading his soul to the cloud so that it can commingle with the soul of Steve Jobs?" is a great line